i guess i'm on a roll....A couple of months ago we had an outragous electricity bill. We knew the high bills have been partly because of the poor insulation value of our windows. After getting a quote for double paned (ka-ching) we opted to upgrade our blinds instead. We have a number of arched windows and the current blinds start below the arch so lot of sunlight comes in the rooms through the top arches. We are having to order custom arches and they are taking forever.

Anyway I come in one day and DH has taken both comfortors off of the futon+bunk bed in my BS18's room and thumb tacked them over the two arched windows in the upstairs game room...leaving only sheets on my son's futon and bunk. Ok, I guess my son doesn't need covers. Tacking 'curtains' I know and nothing I would consider doing myself, but I don't want to hear anymore about the electricity bill from DH so have lived with these temporary make-shift curtains. BS18 hasn't complained but has taken down one of the comfortors a couple of times when he's been over to use. DH always re-hangs it after BS18 leaves.

The arched blinds are taking forever to come in and today when I went up to the gameroom before work this morning, in the frustrated mood I'm already in, seeing my son's comforters still hanging over the windows really pissed me off again. So I took them down, put them back on my son's futon and bed. Then I hung SD10's spare comforter and throw blanket from her room over the gameroom windows. Equal time I'm thinking Needless to say DH calls me at work after he got home this afternoon just livid. I am so sick of the double standard...grrr!!!

I'm about ready to swap the queen-size bed in SD10's room, which was my own bed prior to our marriage, with the futon that is in my son's room too. SD10 has slept in her room and on that bed only a handful of times since we married and bought the house 2 years ago. She perfers to sleep on the gameroom sofa. In the meantime my 180+ lb BS18 sleeps on a sagging Ikea futon when he is over. I mentioned this to DH months ago and he said no, that SD10 was going to start sleeping in her room again...hasn't happened once since that conversation.